Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned for 25 years on the island prison of Imrali, with the last three and a half years spent in complete isolation. This talk from 1st of October in GT22, Maribor with Dr. Müslüm Örtülü (Kurdish center of Public relations – Civaka Azad) sheds light on the abduction and imprisonment of Öcalan and the torture practices of the Turkish state, linking Öcalan’s situation to the broader policies against the Kurdish people. Furthermore, in response to his imprisonment, it discusses the paradigm of Democratic Confederalism as Öcalan’s proposition for a democratic solution, that has been put into practice in Rojava and other parts of Kurdistan.

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Abdullah Öcalan je že 25 let zaprt v zaporu na otoku Imrali, zadnja tri leta in pol v popolni izolaciji. Pogovor s 1. oktobra z Dr. MüslümOM Örtülüjem (Kurdski center za odnose z javnostmi – Civaka Azad) osvetljuje Öcalanovo ugrabitev ter mučilne prakse turške države, Öcalanov položaj pa povezuje s širšo politiko proti kurdskemu ljudstvu. Poleg tega kot odziv na njegovo zaprtje obravnava paradigmo demokratičnega konfederalizma – Öcalanov predlog za demokratično rešitev kurdskega vprašanja, ki se v praksi izvaja v Rožavi in drugih delih Kurdistana.

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